Adrián Paenza

ARGENTINA, 1949

LEELAVATI PRIZE WINNER 2014

Doctor in mathematics and journalist. He was born in Argentina in
1949. He teaches at Buenos Aires University, New York and Chicago
Universities. He has also
been the MC of TEDxBuenosAires. has published Matemática... ¿estás ahí? (Mathematics... Are You There?), a book
that started a series of five titles about popular mathematics, which have
already sold 600.000 copies and they are still on the best-seller lists. The
series want to bring maths closer to people and entertain them. Paenza is
already working on his next book, following the popularization of mathematics
but offering a new form of content adapted to the broad experience he has
gathered throughout the years, thanks to his permanent contact with thousands
of readers.

"This
book is the kind that stays with you for the rest of your life:

a treasure
chest that, once opened, floods us with questions and mysteries,